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Van Gaal keen to see end of transfer frenzy

Oliver Kay

July 11 2015, 1:01am, The Times

Depay, left, poses with Van Gaal, who has warned that the player that the transition to England will be a testAndrew Yates/Reuters

Louis van Gaal was at pains to remind his audience yesterday that he is a coach rather than a chequebook manager. He is right, of course, but the Manchester United manager finds himself in the midst of a period of frenzied wheeler-dealing in the transfer market.

Van Gaal was sitting alongside Memphis Depay, United’s £25 million acquisition from PSV Eindhoven. A £12.9 million deal to sign Matteo Darmian should be finalised over the weekend, with the Torino full back arriving in Manchester last night for a medical examination, while United are continuing to pursue other players, including Nicolas Otamendi, the Valencia and Argentina defender, Morgan Schneiderlin, the Southampton midfield player, and Bastian Schweinsteiger, of Bayern Munich and Germany, and a variety of attacking targets.